Anne Marie Green @AMGreenSC

The net effect of this decision is political parties will have more power over individual candidates. When elections are over, winning candidates will feel more obligated to vote with their parties instead of their constituents. Fewer Thomas Massies and Ro Khannas, more zombies.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47

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British forces launch a full assault on Fort Sullivan, South Carolina. The position does not fall as quickly as they would have pleased; British cannon fire bounces off the Patriot Fort, which is constructed of palmetto logs. The British bullets cut down the militia flag, and young Patriot Sergeant William Jasper races to the pole and raises it under withering fire. Meanwhile, American fire does substantial damage to Royal Navy ships. Although 2,200 British troops and nine ships attacked a fort with only 400 militia inside, just 12 Patriots are killed for the loss of 91 British and severe damage to their ships. They do not take the Fort and they are compelled to retreat.

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People are missing the point. It is not that the phrase Trump insisted be on new passports confirms that he doesn't know what a passport is. It's that for a year not one person who works for him was willing to tell him so. They will remain cowards when he declares martial law.

Best Soldier in the Army today. He is what right looks like. Kremlin and terrorist organizations will be relieved to know that he will soon be gone.

Polymarket Intel @PolymarketIntel

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Gen. Chris Donahue, head of U.S. European Command, has been dismissed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and is expected to announce his retirement today. - Financial Times

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Putting it out there: Alan Wilson won this runoff without any help from Donald Trump. His last minute endorsement was for his own ego. Alan Wilson already had it in the bag.

🚨 BREAKING: Close Trump advisors have been informing him the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled, which he immediately denies to blame liberals.

@SenRussellOtt It's ridiculous. Thank you for recognizing what a problem this is/was and working to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

Want to help stop this last-second redistricting mess? Vote early Tuesday morning. Early voting opens May 26 at 8:30 AM. The Senate cannot reconvene until 11 AM. Break early turnout records before they try to cancel congressional primaries.

@MikeBales @JonahDispatch I put parchment paper down on mine every time I use it and I swear the pan responds, "ok, boomer," and everything above the parchment paper somehow joins the primordial bliss below the parchment paper

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

@megbasham @CandaceSlowens @PhilNvestigates I am a Christ follower. I believe that Jesus is the Way and the Truth. Your posts make me so sad. Your posts and replies to posts don't point to Jesus. You do nothing but stir up strife and enmity, not love. More of Him, less of everything else, please.

11yr old PRINCE ROGERS NELSON — who left us 10yrs ago today, aged just 57 — interviewed in 1970 on a Minnesota picket line succinctly & eruditely making it clear why he believed his Teachers deserved better pay.

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do. We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need. So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

Reading @Franklin_Graham's attempt to pretzel himself in defense of the president's social media posts. God calls believers to stand for what's right and true — not cower because you might not get a "seat at the table." The seat is worthless if everything is compromised.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that white evangelicals would vote for Satan himself if he were Republican.

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

I think JD Vance’s response, unfortunately, misses the point. When the Pope says, “God is not on the side of those who wield the sword” (Matthew 26:52), he is not denying the Church’s Just War tradition. He is calling us back to the heart of Christ. In Matthew 26:52, Jesus says, “all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” He also teaches us to love not only our friends but our enemies (Matthew 5:44), to refuse retaliation (Matthew 5:39), and in the end, He submits to the Cross without violence. This shows a clear direction: the Kingdom of God is not built through force. As He says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). Christ does not present violence as something that reflects God’s nature. He allows Himself to be killed rather than defend Himself with force. That is central to the Church’s message. What is Just War Theory? Just War Theory was developed mainly by St. Augustine and later refined by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is not a justification for violence, but a strict moral framework meant to limit it. It accepts that, in a fallen world, the use of force may sometimes be tolerated, but only under serious conditions. There must be a just cause, such as defending innocent life or resisting grave injustice. It must be declared by a legitimate authority. The intention must be right, not driven by revenge, hatred, or conquest, but by the desire to restore justice and peace. War must truly be a last resort, after every serious peaceful option has been exhausted. There must be a real probability of success, so that lives are not wasted in a hopeless conflict. The response must be proportionate, meaning the harm caused must not be greater than the evil being resisted. And even in war, civilians and non-combatants must never be deliberately targeted. Even with all these conditions, the Church never says that God supports war. At most, it says that moral responsibility may, in very limited circumstances, tolerate the use of force to prevent a greater evil. Peace remains the goal. Violence is never the ideal. What I find difficult in Vance’s response is the tone toward the Pope. It comes across as though he is trying to correct theological language, as if the Pope is offering just another opinion. But the Pope’s role is precisely to speak into moral and theological questions, especially when they touch on real issues like war and power. At a deeper level, this seems like a clash between political reasoning and the logic of the Gospel. Christ is the standard, not political strategy, not historical precedent. Everything has to be measured against Him. So yes, the Church has wrestled with the reality of war. But that does not weaken the Pope’s point. If anything, it makes it more necessary. In a world that keeps finding ways to justify violence, the Church must keep pointing back to Christ, who did not conquer by the sword, but by the Cross.

@travisakers my fate on Tuesday 😬